May Film Club

 For the month of May, we will be watching George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing.

Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy romantic drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A.S. Byatt and follows a djinn (Idris Elba) who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor (Tilda Swinton) and tells her stories from his thousands of years of existence.

The film holds a 71% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Glenn Kenny, writing for Rogerebert.com, gave it a 3.5/4 stars saying this in his review, "The tales told by the Djinn are packed with hair-raising violence and extremely variegated landscapes of lust. It's a chronicle of how love and hate can make one do funny things. And about the paradox of being human, our intrepid selves and our shadow selves. So much human achievement is depicted here, and so much human atrocity. As is observed near the end of the picture, "Despite all the whiz-bang, we remain befuddled." 

I hope that you will be able to make it out for this interesting film. We will be meeting Thursday, May 23rd at 5:30pm.

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWGvntl9itE&ab_channel=MGM

Hope to see you there!